Hilary Pickup and Caroline Stokes have joined the Solihull office of law firm Alexander Harris.

Ms Pickup specialises in catastrophic injury, working with clients who have suffered a brain or spinal injury.

She adds to the expertise of the national catastrophic injury team, and will be working alongside partners Warren Collins in the London office, and Lesley Casey in the Altrincham office. The team deal with severe injuries including those sustained at work, road traffic accidents and military injuries.

She joins the firm from Irwin Mitchell in Birmingham.

Ms Pickup is currently working on a number of catastrophic injury cases.